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Show ' DEATH IN WRECK; MffljADl! HURT I Southern Pacific Passenger I Train Crashes Into Heavily-I Heavily-I Loaded Electric Gar, I DISASTER OCCURRED IN I SUBURBS OF PASADENA I Blame Has Not Been Fully Placed; Probably Lies With Electric Crew. LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 2S. One woman wo-man was killed, two or three persons per-sons fatally Injured and upward of thlrty-flvo hurt, many of them seriously, serious-ly, in a collision this afternoon of a local Southern Pacific passenger train running between this city and Pasadena and a car ot the Slorra Madro division I of the Pacific Electric Railway company. Tho accident happened at Oneonta Juuc-tlon, Juuc-tlon, ln the suburbs of South Pasedena. Danger Was Unseen. Tho "olectrlc car left hero with forty-two forty-two passengers on board. Arriving at Oneonta, tho car stopped and tho conductor con-ductor went ahead to the Southern Pacific Pa-cific grade crossing' at this point. He saw no train approaching and tfio car started forward and reached the center of the crossing, when tho train, westbound west-bound from Pasadena for Los Angeles, suddenly rounded tho curve north and crashed Into tho car with torriflo Impact. The train was running at a high rate I of snccd and no, offorL could hn madn I to avert the crash. The electric car was struck squarely In the center by tho pilot of the engine. Tbo body of tho car was torn from the trucks and carried for 200 feet down tho track boforo portions por-tions of the wreckage went under tho wheels and throw the engine from tho rails. The englno and tender went Into tho ditch and the combination baggage and smoker was partinlly derailed. Many Were Mauglod. The passengers on tho electric car wero hurled ln every direction, and many of them were thrown boaeath tho train and horribly cut and mangled. Ono woman wo-man was killed instantly and sovcral who were believed to bo dying wore I taken from the wreckage. The injured were at once placed on an electric car and taken to the various hospitals in Los Angoles and Pasadena, Scarcoly a person In tho car escaped Injury. So far as ascertained, none of the pasBon-gors pasBon-gors on tho train wero hurt. The ono coach of the train did not leave the rails and none of Its occupants were hurt beyond be-yond a sovero shaking up. A car loaded with surgeons was dispatched from Los Angeles at onco and rendered aid to the injured bofore they reached tho hospitals. hos-pitals. Engineer L. A. Potter of the Southern Pacific said: Blames Crew of Electric Oar. "It was entirely the fault of tho crew I of tho electric car. They attomptod to get across the track in front of the train and miscalculated the distance." None of the crew wero hurt beyond cuts and bruises. Tho Pacific Electric company Issued the following statement regarding tho accident: "It has boon Impossible so far to definitely defi-nitely place the responsibility. We know that tho car came to a stop for the purpose pur-pose of the condvictor flagging iho crossing, cross-ing, but whether tho motorman started before getting proper signal from the conductor, or whether the conductor gave tho motorman a go-ahead signal without looking ln both directions, it Is impossible to determine until a thorough investigation has been made." |